turkey
1. large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail;
widely domesticated for food (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
Meleagris gallopavo
• Hypernyms:
domestic fowl, fowl, poultry
• Hyponyms:
turkey cock, gobbler, tom, tom turkey
• Member Holonyms:
Meleagris, genus Meleagris
2. a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
- some joker is blocking the driveway
• Syn:
joker
• Hypernyms:
unpleasant person, disagreeable person
3. flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
• Hypernyms:
poultry
• Part Meronyms:
breast, white meat, turkey wing
4. an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
- the first experiment was a real turkey
- the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned
• Syn:
bomb, dud
• Derivationally related forms:
bomb (for: bomb)
• Hypernyms:
flop, bust, fizzle
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